Availability
Availability measures the proportion of time a service remains operational and accessible over a defined period under agreed conditions.
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AVHDX
AVHDX is a differential disk Hyper-V used by the two-armed group.
View definitionAWS
The Amazon Web Services cloud platform offers a wide range of infrastructure and platform services.
View definitionAXFR
AXFR is a concept or mechanism used in network & dns to transfer a zone in full DNS.
View definitionB2B Collaboration
the Microsoft Entra External ID model that lets organizations invite or provision external users to access tenant resources
View definitionB2B Direct Connect
a Microsoft Entra External ID mode based on mutual trust between organizations, used by specific cross-tenant collaboration scenarios
View definitionBackup
A backup is an independently retained copy of data or systems that supports recovery after hardware failure, deletion, corruption or attack.
View definitionBackup Catalog
a central index describing available backups, their contents, restore points, and locations
View definitionBackup Chain
the ordered set of full and incremental/differential backups required to reconstruct a restore point
View definitionBackup Copy
Backup Copy is a concept or mechanism used to backup to copy restoration points to a second independent location.
View definitionBackup Gateway
A backup gateway transfers backup data between protected workloads and a repository or object storage endpoint.
View definitionBackup Health Check
a periodic check that rereads or recalculates backup data to detect corruption or inconsistencies before restore time
View definitionBackup Immutability
Immutable backups prevent stored restore points from being changed or deleted during a defined protection period.
View definitionBackup Job
a configured backup-software task that defines what to protect, when, where, and under which policy
View definitionBackup Metadata
the descriptive information of a backup: inventory, index, dates, objects, dependencies, checksums, or restore settings
View definitionBackup Repository
A location where backup files are stored.
View definitionBackup Retention
The duration or number of backup points retained.
View definitionBackup Set
a coherent collection of backup data and restore points grouped for the same policy, source, or period
View definitionBackup Validation
the process that confirms a backup meets defined consistency, integrity, and restorability criteria
View definitionBackup Verification
an operation that checks the technical integrity of a backup file or restore point after creation
View definitionBackup Window
the planned time window during which backups can run with acceptable production impact
View definitionBare-Metal Restore
A restoration that reconstructs a complete system on an empty or replaced machine.
View definitionBash
A very common command interpreter on Linux.
View definitionBastion Host
A hardened server used as a controlled administrative access point to internal resources.
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